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Tag: Irish

Scenes of a Graphic Nature

Scenes of a Graphic Nature

August 6, 2021 Fiona Brichaut 4 **** Leave a comment

A clever, perceptive, well written and very readable novel about Ireland, history, lies and stories.

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White City Kevin Power

White City

May 20, 2021 Fiona Brichaut 4 **** Leave a comment

Moving and well written story of family dysfunction, the corruption of wealth and a life shattered by a series of poor decisions.

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Life Sentences - Billy O'Callaghan

Life Sentences

December 3, 2020 Fiona Brichaut 2**, 4 **** Leave a comment

A long and unrelenting story of miserable poverty, hard work and bare survival. It’s miserable to read, too, despite often lyrical prose.

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A Good Father | Catherine Talbot

A Good Father

November 28, 2020 Fiona Brichaut 5***** Leave a comment

Des is a good father. He loves his wife and children more than anything. So much that he’s determined to take care of them, once and for all.

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Love Roddy Doyle

Love

November 9, 2020 Fiona Brichaut 4 **** Leave a comment

Love between friends, between parents and children, between spouses. And that weird, unreliable, deceptive kind of love — being ‘in love’.

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Snow John Banville

Snow

October 27, 2020 Fiona Brichaut 4 **** Leave a comment

There’s a body in the library of the Big House, but nothing is quite as it appears in Snow, an atmospheric whodunnit set in post-war Ireland.

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The Searcher

October 17, 2020 Fiona Brichaut 5***** Leave a comment

American ex-cop in the Irish countryside. Intelligent and well written, it debunks the tourist-brochure stereotypes. A cracking good read.

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Where the Edge Is

September 20, 2020 Fiona Brichaut 5***** Leave a comment

Where the edge is is about the events surrounding a bus that falls into a sinkhole early one morning in a small town in Ireland. But the bus crash itself

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No Simple Death

March 4, 2020 Fiona Brichaut 4 **** Leave a comment

Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West is called to investigate a murder in a graveyard in Foxrock, an upscale suburb of Dublin. I thoroughly enjoyed this police procedural. It’s fairly standard

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Holding by Graham Norton

Holding

December 14, 2016 Fiona Brichaut 4 **** Leave a comment

Tragedy and mystery in an Irish village. A strong plot, bursts of humor and interesting, well rounded characters.

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